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In this episode, Mike Porter explores neurochemical explanations for near-death and out-of-body experiences, alongside challenging cases that defy these explanations.

Send us Fan Mail The brain in crisis floods with endorphins, gamma waves, and possibly its own DMT, but does that explain everything? In episode four of the Altered States series, Mike Porter examines near-death and out-of-body experiences, starting with the strongest neurochemical explanations science has to offer. Then he digs into the cases that explanation struggles with: Pim van Lommel's Lancet-published research on verified perception during documented brain inactivity...

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